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Learning Force.com Application Development

You're reading from   Learning Force.com Application Development Use the Force.com platform to design and develop real-world, cutting-edge cloud applications

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Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781782172796
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Chamil Madusanka Chamil Madusanka
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Chamil Madusanka is a Salesforce.com-certified Force.com developer. He has been working on Force.com projects since 2011. He works as a developer on many custom applications built on Force.com and has also trained end users and new Salesforce developers at his current company (attune Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.) and former company (Sabre Technologies (Pvt) Ltd). He has authored Visualforce Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing. Chamil won the Salesforce New Year Resolution 2013 challenge, which was rolled out by Salesforce. He is an active member of the Force.com community and contributes through various channels. He is passionate about Force.com and shares his knowledge of Force.com technologies through his blog (http://salesforceworld.blogspot.com/). He is a super-contributor on the Force.com discussion board and shares his knowledge and experience on Force.com by providing effective answers to developer questions. He is the initiator and organizer of the Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform Developer User Group. His contribution to the Sri Lanka Salesforce community has led to an increase in Salesforce competency in Sri Lanka. He completed his BSc in computer science from the University of Colombo, School of Computing, Sri Lanka (UCSC). His areas of interest include cloud computing, semantic web technologies, and Ontology-based systems. Hailing from Polonnaruwa, an ancient city in Sri Lanka, he currently resides in Gampaha in the Western province of Sri Lanka. His interests include reading technology books and technology blog posts, and playing cricket. Chamil can be reached via twitter at @chamilmadusanka, Skype at chamilmadusanka, and e-mail at chamil.madusanka@gmail.com.
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Force.com FREE CHAPTER 2. Building the Data Model 3. Building the User Interface 4. Designing Apps for Multiple Users and Protecting Data 5. Implementing Business Processes 6. Data Management on the Force.com Platform 7. Custom Coding with Apex 8. Building Custom Pages with Visualforce 9. Analytics as a Service with the Force.com Platform 10. E-mail Services with the Force.com Platform 11. Building Public Websites with Force.com Sites 12. Deploying the Force.com Application A. Force.com Tools Index

Creating custom fields

We have successfully created the Employee object with the standard fields. According to the requirements, we need more fields to store various types of data values. In the preceding sections, you have learned that a Salesforce object is analogous to a database table, in the same way as the Salesforce standard/custom field is analogous to a database table column. Normally, a Database Management System (DBMS) has a set of data types for the database table columns. The Force.com platform also provides a set of data types to define custom fields of Salesforce custom objects and selected standard objects. The following two figures show us a few data types in the Force.com platform:

Creating custom fields

The set of data types of Force.com platform—set 1

Creating custom fields

The set of data types of Force.com platform—set 2

As you can see, we have a set of data types to create custom fields for a custom object or a standard object.

Let's explore the data types of the Force.com platform under the seven...

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Chamil Madusanka is a Salesforce.com-certified Force.com developer. He has been working on Force.com projects since 2011. He works as a developer on many custom applications built on Force.com and has also trained end users and new Salesforce developers at his current company (attune Lanka (Pvt) Ltd.) and former company (Sabre Technologies (Pvt) Ltd). He has authored Visualforce Developer's Guide, Packt Publishing. Chamil won the Salesforce New Year Resolution 2013 challenge, which was rolled out by Salesforce. He is an active member of the Force.com community and contributes through various channels. He is passionate about Force.com and shares his knowledge of Force.com technologies through his blog (http://salesforceworld.blogspot.com/). He is a super-contributor on the Force.com discussion board and shares his knowledge and experience on Force.com by providing effective answers to developer questions. He is the initiator and organizer of the Sri Lanka Salesforce Platform Developer User Group. His contribution to the Sri Lanka Salesforce community has led to an increase in Salesforce competency in Sri Lanka. He completed his BSc in computer science from the University of Colombo, School of Computing, Sri Lanka (UCSC). His areas of interest include cloud computing, semantic web technologies, and Ontology-based systems. Hailing from Polonnaruwa, an ancient city in Sri Lanka, he currently resides in Gampaha in the Western province of Sri Lanka. His interests include reading technology books and technology blog posts, and playing cricket. Chamil can be reached via twitter at @chamilmadusanka, Skype at chamilmadusanka, and e-mail at chamil.madusanka@gmail.com.
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